Motivational Quotes

Adversity

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Adversity

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

12.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

39.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

40.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

46.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.